Outdoor holidays often require expensive, bulky gear that’s hard to transport and usable once. So it’s a win-win to borrow or rent gear locally instead of owning it. Here’s how.
Chip Motors is taking orders for a low-speed, battery-powered “life utility vehicle,” priced from $15,000, joining a new wave of quirky EVs.
Chip Motors is taking orders for a low-speed, battery-powered “life utility vehicle,” priced from $15,000, joining a new wave of quirky EVs.

Australia has set up a national Office of AI. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese also promised new copyright protection for creatives, in a speech in Sydney. Albanese announced the plan on Wednesday at the University of Sydney, the Guardian reported. His …

Britain wants to be an AI superpower. One of its flagship data centres cannot get the electricity to switch on. Nscale’s £2bn Essex site has the money, the planning permission, and a grid connection, but no power arriving in time. Nscale has the cash, …

Microsoft promised to be carbon negative by 2030. Its own report shows emissions up 25% in a year instead. The number is worse than it looks, and also more honest than it looks, and the reason for both is the same: AI data centres. Microsoft set one of…
While U.S. and European leaders blame “massive subsidies,” new analysis shows that China’s EV advantage comes from something far more consequential.
Bordeaux and Médoc-Atlantique are adapting for rising heat by focusing on overall vineyard resilience through more biodiversity, cover crops and changing wine blends.

Cutting the West’s reliance on China would carry a staggering price. A new study puts the cost of decoupling from China at $23.6tn over 25 years, and warns the bill would land hardest on the industries building Europe’s tech future. The West has spent …